A review by 1madesun
I Hope You're Listening by Tom Ryan

2.0

This isn’t the best nor the worst mystery out there. It is probably because I was analyzing to much as I was reading. I was able to make some correct guesses on what was going to happen and who did what. My favorite character was Sarah Cash, and she wasn’t even the main character! Unlike the main character, Sarah was easier to relate with because she was thinking logically about the situation that they were all in, while the main character Dee was being risky and straight forward, with balls to the wall energy; Even after Dee said she wanted to stay out of risks and be under the radar. At one point there were three missing person cases happening in the story at once, each of them being explored in the story at the same time. I think this story had too many moving parts and if it focused on just a few, it would’ve been better executed. The elements I enjoyed was a platonic boy-girl friendship, the small-town setting, and the adults acting like adults in their roles, be it parents, detectives, dead-beats, or reporters.